Today – Flag Day is celebrated on June 14, 2011. Flag Day commemorates the First Flag Resolution adopted by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. The event has been celebrated in one form or another ever since, but it wasn’t until 1885, under the leadership of Wisconsin schoolteacher, Bernard Cigrand, that the cause for national recognition began to take shape. The National Flag Day Foundation initiates fund raising efforts to support Bernard J. Cigrand’s dream of spreading the word about this important celebration of American History.